Remember the 3year old little boy named Abubakar Usman whose eyes were
removed by some ritualists in Kaduna last week? The boy's father, Usman Isa, says doctors at the Ahmadu Bello
University have performed an operation on the little boy. According to
Isa who spoke with Daily Trust, the doctors said the ritualists removed
everything in the boys eyes and that there

Most of you will remember him in a previous post we made on
him. He said he thought it was the blessing of God in disguise.

On a 2005 edition of Mitsubishi Pajero parked on the
premises of the Lagos State Police Command Headquarters, Ikeja, was a church
sticker bearing the picture of a 32-year-old Presbyterian pastor from Umuahia,
Abia State, Rev. Titus Onwuchekwa. In bold letters beside the pastor’s photo on
the sticker are the words “Too blessed to be cursed”.

True to those words, Onwuchekwa, who was paraded alongside
two notorious stolen car dealers by

The Standard Media editor who delivered a blow to African
quality journalism by promoting gender stereotyping and sexism by knowingly
publishing false stories about women in Tanzania and Eritrea has been moved
from his job. According to Kenyan media reports, Standard Media Group Digital
Editor, David Ohito who approved two hoax stories was moved to another job.

Standard Group Digital Editor, David Ohito has tarnished the
groups image and overall credibility and has been transferred to Kisumu to ‘put
things in order’, a statement published by Kenyan

Oh dear! The Olumofin brothers have been asked to
leave the wedding ceremony they both dressed up to attend this afternoon. We
really can’t tell why they were asked to leave, but sources say, the bride was
scared they might cause some fracas on her special day especially when they
arrived with soldiers.

The footballer met with his former Arsenal coach, Arsene Wenger in
London during the signing of two new players, Kelechi Nwakali and Samuel
Chukwueze, to the UK club. The two youngsters were part of the Nigerian
team that won the Under-17 World Cup in November last year. If I am
correct, they will be the first Nigerians, since Kanu, to sign with
Arsenal. Congrats to them.

Rob Kardashian who has stayed away from being on KUWTK now wants back on reality TV with his new girlfriend, Blac Chyna.
It will showcase their day-to-day lives, reports claim he's interested
in getting back to reality TV because that's the only way he knows how
to make a living.
He has reportedly reached out to the Kardashian TV franchise, E! Network
because their contract gives the E! Network first bite at any reality
show any of them might do.
Even if the network rejects the idea, Rob can still shop it elsewhere. We'll see if it works out.

This Jan 2016 is something else. Chris Brown is venting his frustrations
over the 2016 Grammy Awards on Twitter. Chris who is nominated in one
category this year, seems to be venting on the current state of affairs
in the music industry.

"#GRAMMY? This is probably the main reason I love being free to create
any kind of music I want. Too many people kiss ass and work less," He
said:

"If u turn on ya radio right now I promise within the hour you will hear
Chris Brown on damn near half the songs or I've co-written. The awards
used to mean something. Now

I don't know how to explain this but I will try. The woman sitting and
backing the camera is said to be a mentally unstable woman. The people
gathered around her believe she gives lucky numbers for betting games as
a few have supposedly testified. So they take their bets to her for her
to help them pick a lucky number...that's how the Blog reader who sent
in the pic explained to me...

New details following David Bowie's death have been revealed. The late
rock icon's will, which was filed in court on Friday in Manhattan,
allegedly revealed that Bowie has left nearly half of his $100 million
estate to his wife Iman, along with the couple's home on Lafayette
Street in Manhattan, according to the New York Post's Page Six, who
obtained the documents.
Their daughter, Alexandria, gets his Ulster County home in upstate New
York, and will split the remaining of Bowie's fortune with his son from a
previous relationship, Duncan Jones.

According to the report, Bowie also gave $2 million to his friend and
personal assistant, Corinne

Barely a week after the decomposing body of the Akaeze Ofulue III of
Ubulu-Uku (pictured above)‎ was found in a bush after he was kidnapped
by suspected Fulani herdsmen on Obior/ Igbodo Road, Delta State,
another monarch, Umukoro Josiah, the Aghaza 1of Olomoro in Isoko south
local government area of Delta state, was kidnapped by some gunmen in
his palace at Ekiagbodo yesterday morning January 29th.

The Delta state Police command spokesperson, Celestina Kalu, has confirmed his abduction.

In a text message she sent to reporters she said

“The Olomoro King, Aghaza 1 was kidnapped in his office in Olomoro
community. The

The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has alerted the general public about the
new ways terrorists have started operating. They now disguise themselves
as madmen to carry out their suicide attacks.

Defence spokesman, Brigadier General Rabe Abubakar, who raised the alert
yesterday January 29th, said the recent suicide attack in Gombi,
Adamawa State was an example of such tactics.‎ He appealed to Nigerians
to be very vigilant and report any suspicious movement they notice.

The former stripper was arrested yesterday at Austin airport for public
intoxication. When TheShadeRome, shared her mugshot on their page, Rob
Kardashian went there to like it. He must be in love...lol. See that below...

Kanye West said it is God's dream for him not to speak on kids again
after the beef he had with Wiz Khalifa during the week where he brought
Wiz and Amber's son into the fight. After being bashed for the comments,
God apparently dreamt and told almighty Kanye not to speak on children
again when he's beefing with others...or is it generally?

The management of Leadership Holdings Limited, publishers of Leadership
newspapers, has returned the N9m it received from the office of former
National Security Adviser through the Newspapers Proprietors Association
of Nigeria as compensation for the seizure of its publications in June
2014.

In a letter dated January 29 and addressed to the General Secretary of
NPAN, the Publishing company owned by former APC Presidential aspirant,
Sam Nda-Isaiah, said it decided to return the money following the
controversy it has generated.

The company however noted that they did no wrong by
collecting the money since the decision to

The immediate past Minister of State, Foreign Affairs and a former
Nigerian Ambassador to Ghana, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro has challenged
controversial online platform, Sahara Reporters and the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to sincerely publish the names of the
Directors and signatories to the alleged Silva McNamara Limited account
to the public as at when the said money was paid instead of demonising
and deceiving Nigerians with vague, contrived and distorted
information.

Obanikoro is appalled by the public political
persecution embarked upon by these agencies noting that there is nowhere
in the world where investigations are being conducted using the pages
of the

Legendary singer Phil Collins, 64, is back with his 3rd former wife,
Orianne Cevey, 8 years after he divorced her in one of the most
expensive divorce settlements in the UK entertainment world at the
time, topping the £24.3m Paul McCartney paid to Heather Mills after
their split. He paid Orianne £25m in 2008 in a highly-publicized
divorce.

The couple married in 1999 and had two children. They separated in 2006
and officially divorced in 2008 saying they had "grown apart". But
Collins has now revealed they are back together and even

33-year-old Oluwabunmi and her 42-year-old husband, Bankole Ogidan both
pictured above, welcomed their first child at a hospital in Ogun state
on Wednesday January 27th from a pregnancy she reportedly carried for
four years.

Narrating the unusual experience to The Nation, Bankole who has been married to Oluwabunmi since August 2011 said

“We were full of hope about having children and raising a complete
family. But we had

World number one, Serena Williams today surprisingly lost the Australian
Open final to Angelique Kerber after battling with the world no 6. She
later admitted with tears in her eyes that Kerber deserved to win. "You
did so well, let me be the first to congratulate you,"
a teary-eyed Williams said on court. "You truly played so well in the
moment."

Angelique Kerber beat Serena 6-4,3-6,6-4 in the final on the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne

Nollywood actress, Sugar Chika Asoegwu bagged a Masters degree in Project Management from the De Montfort University in Leicester, UK two days ago. Her Husband was at the graduation ceremony with her. More photos after the cut...

Avian Influenza, popularly referred to as bird flu which has
returned back to Nigeria has now affected 2.5 million chickens and has spread
to 18 states in Nigeria. According to the Nigerian Institute of Animal Science,
this has resulted in the loss of several billions of Naira.

The Registrar/Chief Executive Officer, NIAS, Dr. Godwin
Oyedeji while explain further on this said,

“By the last count, I think as of yesterday (Thursday), not
less than 2.5 million chickens have been infected and over 700 farms have been
affected nationwide. From one incidence in one state and

SaharaReporters has exclusively learned that two sons of Nigeria’s
former Minister of State for Defense, Musiliu Obanikoro, are currently
on the radar of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over
a massive amount of monies transferred to their accounts from funds
budgeted for the procurement of weapons and other equipment for the
country’s military. Two sources at the anti-graft agency told a
correspondent of SaharaReporters that the EFCC had traced N4.745 billion
to the bank account of Sylvan McNamara Limited, a company in which the
former minister’s two sons, Ibrahim Babajide and Gbolahan Olatunde
Obanikoro, have major interest.

Our sources disclosed that the
funds were paid in several tranches into the company’s account

The British Conservative Party led by Hon. Mark Field, member of British
Parliament & Chairman of the international office of the
Conservative party and Collin Bloom, director of Outreach for the
Conservative party met with PDP National Publicity Secretary Olisa Metuh
today at the PDP Secretariat in Abuja. See more photos below...

Yesterday, actresses Uche Jombo, Omoni Oboli, Blessing Egbe
and Ufoma McDemott clapped back at their colleague Chioma Akpotha after
misinterpreting a tweet. They've all responded today after
Chioma explained she meant no harm with her tweet and was misunderstood
by them.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested one of its
operatives, Abdulrahman Mohammed Biu, a Deputy Detective Superintendent
for allegedly collecting $150,000 (about N45 million) from seven yet to
be named military officers currently under investigation for their
involvement in the $2.1 billion arms procurement fraud.

A statement issued by EFCC’s spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, said
Abdulrahman collected the money from the indicted military officers with
a promise to give them soft landing to escape probe.

A mother will always be a mother first. Kris Jenner was today pictured arriving to Blac Chyna's
house days after after her son Rob Kardashian moved in. Kris was seen
rolling up to Blac's gated community in Tarzana, California, in her
brand new Rolls Royce. See more photos below...

Former Akwa Ibom state governor and Senator, Godswill Akpabio, has asked
the Federal government to seize any money in any foreign account that
is traced to him. Akpabio said this in a statement he released today
through his spokesperson, Anietie Ekong. He released the statement to
debunk a newspaper report that he had made a secret attempt to withdraw
$7.2 billion from banks in Dubai, United Arab Emirate, through channels
in the Central Bank of Nigeria.

“We challenge these purveyors of falsehood to publish the full details
of the purported $7.2 billion account and we urge the Federal Government
of Nigeria to seize such sum and prosecute the owner if it does exist.
People should learn to accept the outcome of

BlacChyna who has been in the news this week for being
recognized as Rob Kardashian's new girlfriend was arrested on Friday
evening after allegedly getting drunk and becoming belligerent during a
flight from Los Angeles, California to Austin, Texas on her way to
London.
According to TMZ...

Chyna was busted in the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport Friday
afternoon. Cops tells us ... when the plane landed they were there and
met her at the gate. She stormed toward the gate for a connecting flight
and an eyewitness says she screamed at an airline

Mariah Carey, her gazillionaira engagement ring reportedly worth about $8million and her billionaire fiance, James
Parker made their first red carpet appearance since sharing the news of
their engagement, yesterday at the G'day USA gala in Los Angeles.
Parker, who is only in his 40s, is said to be the 3rd or 4th richest
Australian. More photos below...